Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. 2018
  2. Published

    Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

    Cappellini, Enrico, Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Welker, Frido, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Damgaard, P. D. B., Gutenbrunner, P., Dunne, J., Hammann, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Ilardo, M., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Wang, Yucheng, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Cox, J., Evershed, R. P. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Annual Review of Biochemistry. 87, 32 p., 36.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period

    Mühlemann, B., Jones, T. C., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Shevnina, I., Logvin, A., Usmanova, E., Panyushkina, I. P., Boldgiv, B., Bazartseren, T., Tashbaeva, K., Merz, V., Lau, N., Smrcka, V., Voyakin, D., Kitov, E., Epimakhov, A., Pokutta, D., Vicze, M., Price, T. D. & 14 others, Moiseyev, V., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Orlando, L. A. A., Rasmussen, Simon, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Osterhaus, A. D. M. E., Smith, D. J., Glebe, D., Fouchier, R. A. M., Drosten, C., Sjögren, K., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Nature. 557, 7705, p. 418-423 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans

    Mühlemann, B., Margaryan, A., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L., Hansen, A. J., Weber, A., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Molak, M., Arneborg, J., Bogdanowicz, W., Falys, C., Sablin, M., Smrcka, V., Sten, S., Tashbaeva, K., Lynnerup, N., Sikora, M., Smith, D. J., Fouchier, R. A. M. & 5 others, Drosten, C., Sjögren, K., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, Eske & Jones, T. C., 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 29, p. 7557-7562 6 p.

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  5. Published

    Ancient pathogen DNA in human teeth and petrous bones

    Margaryan, Ashot, Hansen, H., Rasmussen, Simon, Sikora, Martin, Moiseyev, V., Khoklov, A., Epimakhov, A., Yepiskoposyan, L., Kriiska, A., Varul, L., Saag, L., Lynnerup, Niels, Willerslev, Eske & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 6, p. 3534-3542 9 p.

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  6. Published

    Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

    Schroeder, H., Sikora, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Cassidy, L. M., Delserc, P. M., Velasco, M. S., Schraiber, J. G., Rasmussen, S., Homburger, J. R., Avila-Arcos, M. C., Allentoft, M. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Renaud, G., Gomez-Carballa, A., Laffoon, J. E., Hopkins, R. J. A., Higham, T. F. G., Carr, R. S., Schaffer, W. C., Day, J. S. & 7 others, Hoogland, M., Salas, A., Bustamante, C. D., Nielsen, R., Bradley, D. G., Hofman, C. L. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. 2341-2346 6 p.

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  7. Published
  8. Published

    The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T. K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M. & 124 others, Harney, E., De Knijff, P., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K. W., Liesau, C., Ríos, P., Blasco, C., Miguel, J. V., García, R. M., Fernández, A. A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-brea, M., Billoin, D., Bonsall, C., Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Navarro, L. C., Craig, O. E., Cook, G. T., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K. E., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M., Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Farré, J. F., Fowler, C., Gazenbeek, M., Pena, R. G., Haber-uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G., Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O., Lefebvre, A., Martínez, C. H., Olmo, V. G., Ramírez, A. B., Maurandi, J. L., Majó, T., Mckinley, J. I., Mcsweeney, K., Mende, B. G., Mod, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R., Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Szeniczey, T., Dani, J., Bernert, Z., Hoole, M., Cheronet, O., Keating, D., Velemínský, P., Dobeš, M., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Fernández, R. F., Herrero-corral, A., Tusa, S., Carnieri, E., Lentini, L., Valenti, A., Zanini, A., Waddington, C., Delibes, G., Guerra-doce, E., Neil, B., Brittain, M., Luke, M., Mortimer, R., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Brücken, G., Furmanek, M., Hałuszko, A., Mackiewicz, M., Rapiński, A., Leach, S., Soriano, I., Lillios, K. T., Cardoso, J. L., Pearson, M. P., Włodarczak, P., Price, T. D., Prieto, P., Rey, P., Risch, R., Rojo Guerra, M. A., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A. M., Smrčka, V., Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Thomas, M. G., Kennett, D. J., Fokkens, H., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A., Sjögren, K., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Haak, W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-fox, C. & Reich, D., 2018, In: Nature. 555, 7695, p. 190-196

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  9. Published

    The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Martiniano, R., Kamm, J., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., Barjamovic, G., Rasmussen, S., Zacho, C. G., Baimukhanov, N., Zaibert, V., Merz, V., Biddanda, A., Merz, I., Loman, V., Evdokimov, V., Usmanova, E., Hemphill, B., Seguin-Orlando, A., Yediay, F. E. & 31 others, Ullah, I., Sjögren, K., Iversen, K. H., Choin, J., jxb425, jxb425, Ilardo, M., Schroeder, Hannes, Moiseyev, V., Gromov, A., Polyakov, A., Omura, S., Senyurt, S. Y., Orlando, L. A. A., Ahmad, H., McKenzie, C., Margaryan, Ashot, Hameed, A., Samad, A., Gul, N., Khokhar, M. H., Goriunova, O. I., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Novembre, J., Weber, A. W., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K., Sikora, Martin, Outram, A. K., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Science. 360, 6396, 11 p., 1422.

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  10. Published

    Discussion: Are the Origins of Indo-European Languages Explained by the Migration of the Yamnaya Culture to the West?

    Klejn, L. S., Haak, W., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Reich, D., Kristiansen, K., Sjögren, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin & Willerslev, Eske, 1 Feb 2018, In: European Journal of Archaeology. 21, 01, p. 3-17

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  11. Published

    Centuries-Old DNA from an Extinct Population of Aesculapian Snake (Zamenis longissimus) Offers New Phylogeographic Insight

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Rasmussen, A. & Kristensen, H., 10 Mar 2018, In: Diversity. 10, 10 p., 14.

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  12. Published

    The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

    McColl, H., Racimo, F., Vinner, L., Demeter, F. P. M., Gakuhari, T., Moreno Mayar, J. V., van Driem, G., Gram Wilken, U., Seguin-Orlando, A., de la Fuente Castro, C. P., Wasef, S., Shoocongdej, R., Souksavatdy, V., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Saidin, M. M., Allentoft, M. E., Sato, T., Malaspinas, A-S., Aghakhanian, F. A., Korneliussen, T. S. & 46 others, Prohaska, Ana, Margaryan, Ashot, Damgaard, P. D. B., Kaewsutthi, S., Lertrit, P., Nguyen, T. M. H., Hung, H., Minh Tran, T., Nghia Truong, H., Nguyen, G. H., Shahidan, S., Wiradnyana, K., Matsumae, H., Shigehara, N., Yoneda, M., Ishida, H., Masuyama, T., Yamada, Y., Tajima, A., Shibata, H., Toyoda, A., Hanihara, T., Nakagome, S., Deviese, T., Bacon, A., Duringer, P., Ponche, J., Shackelford, L., Patole-Edoumba, E., Nguyen, A. T., Bellina-Pryce, B., Galipaud, J., Kinaston, R., Buckley, H., Pottier, C., Rasmussen, Simon, Higham, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Orlando, L., Sikora, Martin, Phipps, M. E., Oota, H., Higham, C., Lambert, D. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 6 Jul 2018, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 361, 6397, p. 88-92 5 p.

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  13. Published

    Early human dispersals within the Americas

    Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Vinner, L., de Barros Damgaard, P., de la Fuente, C., Allentoft, M. E., Vimala, T., Racimo, F., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Iraeta Orbegozo, M., Mylopotamitaki, D., Alexandersen, V., Primeau, C., Gregersen, K., Hansen, K. L., Lynnerup, N., Kjær, K., Schroeder, H., Malaspinas, A. S., Sikora, M. & 2 others, Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 7 Dec 2018, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 362, 6419, p. 1, 1-11 12 p., eaav2621.

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  14. 2019
  15. Published

    A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch

    Jensen, T. Z. T., Niemann, J., Iversen, K. H., Fotakis, A. K., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, Å. J., Pedersen, M. W., Sinding, M-H. S., Ellegaard, M. R., Allentoft, M. E., Lanigan, L. T., Taurozzi, A. J., Nielsen, S. H., Dee, M. W., Mortensen, M. N., Christensen, M. C., Sørensen, S. A., Collins, M. J., Gilbert, M. T. P., Sikora, M. & 2 others, Rasmussen, Simon & Schroeder, Hannes, 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 10 p., 5520.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Ancient DNA shows high faunal diversity in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene

    Antonosyan, M., Seersholm, Frederik Valeur, Grealy, A. C., Barham, M., Werndly, D., Margaryan, Ashot, Cieślik, A., Stafford, T. W., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bunce, M. & Yepiskoposyan, L., 2019, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 219, p. 102-111 10 p.

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  17. Published

    Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

    Sabatini, S., Bergerbrant, S., Brandt, Luise Ørsted, Margaryan, Ashot & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11, 9, p. 4909-4925 17 p.

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  18. Published

    Archaeological Wool Textiles: A Window into Ancient Sheep Genetics?

    Brandt, Luise Ørsted & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe: Production, Specialisation, Consumption. Sabatini, S. & Bergerbrant, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 274-303 Twelve

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Archaeological wool textiles – a window to ancient sheep genetics?

    Brandt, Luise Ørsted & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe. Cambridge University Press, p. 274-303

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

    Cappellini, E., Welker, F., Pandolfi, L., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Samodova, D., Rüther, P. L., Fotakis, A. K., Lyon, D., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Bukhsianidze, M., Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, R., Mackie, M., Ginolhac, A., Ferring, R., Tappen, M., Palkopoulou, E., Dickinson, M. R., Stafford, T. W., Chan, Y. L., Götherström, A. & 23 others, Nathan, S. K. S. S., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Kirillova, I., Moodley, Y., Agusti, J., Kahlke, R. D., Kiladze, G., Martínez-Navarro, B., Liu, Shanlin, Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander, Kelstrup, C. D., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Orlando, L., Penkman, K., Shapiro, B., Rook, L., Dalén, L., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Lordkipanidze, D. & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Nature. 574, 7776, p. 103-107

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  21. Published

    Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine

    Welker, Frido, Ramos Madrigal, Jazmin, Kuhlwilm, M., Liao, W., Gutenbrunner, P., de Manuel, M., Samodova, D., Mackie, Meaghan, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bacon, A., Collins, Matthew James, Cox, J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Demeter, Fabrice, Wang, W., Marques-Bonet, T. & Cappellini, Enrico, 2019, In: Nature. 576, p. 262-265

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  22. Published

    Human Disease Variation in the Light of Population Genomics

    Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Schork, A. J., Sikora, Martin, Stern, A. J., Ilardo, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Folkersen, L., Buil, A., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Geschwind, D., Ingason, A., Werge, Thomas, Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Cell. 177, 1, p. 115-131 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

    Frei, K. M., Bergerbrant, S., Sjögren, K., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Harvig, L., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin, Price, T. D., Frei, Robert & Kristiansen, K., 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 8, e0219850.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Petrous bone diagenesis: a multi-analytical approach

    Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., McAllister, G. D., Lynnerup, Niels, Damgaard, P. B., Hansen, H. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik & Collins, Matthew James, 2019, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 518, p. 143-154 12 p.

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  25. Published

    The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

    Sikora, M., Pitulko, V. V., Sousa, V. C., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Damgaard, P. D. B., de la Fuente Castro, C., Renaud, G., Yang, M. A., Fu, Q., Dupanloup, I., Giampoudakis, K., Nogues, D. B., Rahbek, C., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., McColl, H., Vasilyev, S. V. & 27 others, Veselovskaya, E., Gerasimova, M., Pavlova, E. Y., Chasnyk, V. G., Nikolskiy, P. A., Gromov, A. V., Khartanovich, V. I., Moiseyev, V., Grebenyuk, P. S., Fedorchenko, A. Y., Lebedintsev, A. I., Slobodin, S. B., Malyarchuk, B. A., Martiniano, R., Meldgaard, Morten, Arppe, L., Palo, J. U., Sundell, T., Mannermaa, K., Putkonen, M., Alexandersen, V., Primeau, C., Baimukhanov, N., Malhi, R. S., Sjögren, K. G., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Nature. 570, p. 182–188

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  26. Published

    Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series

    Fages, A., Hanghøj, K., Khan, N., Gaunitz, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Leonardi, M., McCrory Constantz, C., Gamba, C., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Albizuri, S., Alfarhan, A. H., Allentoft, M., Alquraishi, S., Anthony, D., Baimukhanov, N., Barrett, J. H., Bayarsaikhan, J., Benecke, N., Bernáldez-Sánchez, E., Berrocal-Rangel, L. & 101 others, Biglari, F., Boessenkool, S., Boldgiv, B., Brem, G., Brown, D., Burger, J., Crubézy, E., Daugnora, L., Davoudi, H., Damgaard, P. D. B., de los Ángeles de Chorro y de Villa-Ceballos, M., Deschler-Erb, S., Detry, C., Dill, N., do Mar Oom, M., Dohr, A., Ellingvåg, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Fathi, H., Felkel, S., Fernández-Rodríguez, C., García-Viñas, E., Germonpré, M., Granado, J. D., Hallsson, J. H., Hemmer, H., Hofreiter, M., Kasparov, A., Khasanov, M., Khazaeli, R., Kosintsev, P., Kristiansen, K., Kubatbek, T., Kuderna, L., Kuznetsov, P., Laleh, H., Leonard, J. A., Lhuillier, J., Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck, C., Logvin, A., Lõugas, L., Ludwig, A., Luis, C., Arruda, A. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Matoso Silva, R., Merz, V., Mijiddorj, E., Miller, B. K., Monchalov, O., Mohaseb, F. A., Morales, A., Nieto-Espinet, A., Nistelberger, H., Onar, V., Pálsdóttir, A. H., Pitulko, V., Pitskhelauri, K., Pruvost, M., Rajic Sikanjic, P., Rapan Papeša, A., Roslyakova, N., Sardari, A., Sauer, E., Schafberg, R., Scheu, A., Schibler, J., Schlumbaum, A., Serrand, N., Serres-Armero, A., Shapiro, B., Sheikhi Seno, S., Shevnina, I., Shidrang, S., Southon, J., Star, B., Sykes, N., Taheri, K., Taylor, W., Teegen, W. R., Trbojević Vukičević, T., Trixl, S., Tumen, D., Undrakhbold, S., Usmanova, E., Vahdati, A., Valenzuela-Lamas, S., Viegas, C., Wallner, B., Weinstock, J., Zaibert, V., Clavel, B., Lepetz, S., Mashkour, M., Helgason, A., Stefánsson, K., Barrey, E., Willerslev, Eske, Outram, A. K., Librado, P. & Orlando, L., 2019, In: Cell. 177, 6, p. 1419-1435, e1-e31

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  27. Published

    Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave

    Schroeder, H., Margaryan, A., Szmyt, M., Theulot, B., Włodarczak, P., Rasmussen, S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Szczepanek, A., Konopka, T., Jensen, T. Z. T., Witkowska, B., Wilk, S., Przybyła, M. M., Pospieszny, Ł., Sjögren, K-G., Belka, Z., Olsen, J., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, E., Frei, K. M. & 3 others, Sikora, Martin, Johannsen, N. N. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 22, p. 10705-10710

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